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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4868455, member: 175"] Need Castle to get a little better. Newton has been oddly erratic, but he has made clutch free throws in national championship games (10-10 in Final Four last year), so I’m comfortable he’ll knock them down when we need. I’m not too worried about Spencer and Karaban. Castle would be a guy who could have the ball in his hands in late game pressure situations and who will need to be counted on. We don’t want to have to hide him since he can break a press with the dribble or throw over the top of a trap. Clingan (and Johnson) will miss some, but that’s long been a tradeoff with a lot of big men. You give up a couple points at the line in exchange for the net positive over the course of the game. You just don’t want them to touch the ball when the other team is trying to foul on purpose. Diarra is an X factor too. He hasn’t shot a lot of them. But he could be out there when we want extra ball handling and speed against a press. [/QUOTE]